In Piazza Eremitani stands the complex of the Civic Museums which groups the Archaeological Museum and the Museum of Medieval and Modern Art. The Museums are housed in the cloisters of the former convent of the Eremitani friars. The Scrovegni Chapel and Palazzo Zuckermann are part of the complex.

Among the collections of the Museum of Medieval and Modern Art, that of paintings certainly occupies an important place. The works, coming from religious institutions and towns and from private donations, are over 3000, with tables by Giorgione and Titian and a wide overview of Venetian painting from the '300 to the' 700. The paintings, exhibited in the Pinacoteca (on the first floor of the Eremitani Museum) and arranged according to a chronological path, belong to the most significant artists in the history of Italian art. To remember are the precious cross, which Giotto painted in the early 1300s for the famous Scrovegni Chapel, and the tables by Guariento, who was the first painter at the Carraresi court and who inaugurated the birth of a Paduan school. Sculptures from the Middle Ages to Antonio Canova and bronzes made by artists such as Andrea Briosco known as il Riccio and Tiziano Aspetti are also exhibited in the Pinacoteca, while the medieval and modern lapidary is set up in the minor cloister.